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An early look at Ionic Push[+]Raymond Camden'sBlog | 3/31/15 4:00 PM | Development, Mobile, Ionic
Before I begin – please, please, please make note of the date of this post (March 30, 2015). As the title says, this is an early look at a new feature Ionic is adding. The feature is changing quite rapidly (it has already changed a bit since I wrote my demo!) so be sure to check the docs for the latest information. With that out of the way, let’s take a look at Ionic Push.

Getting WURFL to work with CFML[+]Adam Cameron's CFML Blog | 3/31/15 7:52 AM | CFML, Shakir Alam
G'day:This is a bit of an insight-free article (more so than usual, I mean), as I did this work ages ago so cannot recall the minutiae of the hassle it gave me, other than recalling there was some. A community member has - coincidentally - asked about the same exercise, so I'm gonna reproduce it here.#ColdFusion #Railo

Adobe Comp CC Released[+]Ben Forta | 3/30/15 9:00 PM | Creative Cloud, Mobile
I was privileged to be able to introduce Khoi Vinh and Adobe Comp during MAX 2014 Sneaks, and today Comp CC is available for download. Use Comp CC to create layouts on your iPad at the touch of a finger. Comp CC transforms natural drawing gestures into crisp graphics, and lets you send yo

Working with IBM MobileFirst and Ionic – a follow up[+]Raymond Camden'sBlog | 3/30/15 5:00 PM | Development, Mobile, Ionic, MobileFirst
Last week I blogged about using IBM’s MobileFirst platform and Ionic. This is part of a series I’m doing discussing how to use both products together to build awesome mobile apps. (How awesome? Five Lion Robots that can transform into One Giant Robot awesome.) Currently there are

45 days Until Into The Box[+]Into the Box Conference | 3/30/15 2:00 PM | Uncategorized
Into The Box 2015 is approaching fast! Don't forget to secure your ticket in time.
This week's feature speaker is: Matt Gifford
Matt Gifford
Matt is the lead developer and provider of tailored consultancy services for Monkeh Works Ltd. Matt specialises in ColdFusion, however has extensive development experience in other languages. He loves automating workflows and processes.
He is an expert contributor to .net magazine, writer for Web Designer magazine and author of 'Object-Oriented Programming

Tip: Viewing Network Requests with the Safari Debugger[+]Raymond Camden'sBlog | 3/27/15 5:00 PM | Development, Mobile
I’m not a heavy Safari user, but I use the heck out of the web tools when testing PhoneGap/Cordova apps. Sometime recently (I believe), the UI changed a bit in terms of the Network request panel and I couldn’t see my requests anymore. I finally figured out the issue and I thought I’d share. To be clear, when I say I figured it out, I mean I found the right post on StackOverflow and all credit goes to user

Using Grunt to Automate MobileFirst/Hybrid Builds[+]Raymond Camden'sBlog | 3/26/15 2:00 PM | Development, Mobile, MobileFirst
When working with MobileFirst and hybrid mobile applications, any changes to your web assets requires running both a build and deploy to see your changes. The command line makes this easy by letting you combine the calls into one (mfp bd), but while developing, it may be a pain to constantly run this. So for fun, I wrote the following Grunt script.

Win A Copy Of Super-Modified[+]Ben Forta | 3/25/15 6:00 PM | Behance
Super-Modified is Behance's new 288 page book that demonstrates how classic approaches to art and design are being subverted, blurred, and reinvented by today's creatives.

Reminder – Having a tool doesn’t mean you always use that tool…[+]Raymond Camden'sBlog | 3/25/15 4:00 PM | Development
Earlier this week Rebecca Murphy wrote an article about what she considers a “baseline” for JavaScript developers: A Baseline for Front-End [JS] Developers: 2015. It’s a good article and I highly recommend reading it, but some of the comments raised an issue that I’ve seen in our community lately that I wanted to address.
It is an in

Mechanical Keyboard Follow-up[+]thecrumb | 3/25/15 12:08 AM
After my previous post about mechanical keyboards I ended up going with the Code Keyboard.
At the time they only offered them in clear or green switches but now they also offer brown. What's the difference you ask?
The Cherry MX Clear switches are a slightly enhanced version of the MX Brown with a slightly more
pronounced operating for

A Guide to Building Static Sites with Jekyll[+]Remote Synthesis | 3/24/15 10:00 PM
As I’ve posted about recently, I’ve been speaking a lot about comparing static site engines. There are a ton of options out there (389 as of today, according to this site). However, based on my personal experience, I always recommend Jekyll - granted, that’s based on having used 5 of the 389 so far.
I alre

Working with IBM MobileFirst and Ionic – Bootstraping[+]Raymond Camden'sBlog | 3/24/15 10:00 PM | Development, JavaScript, Mobile, Ionic, MobileFirst
Yesterday I described how to make use of the Ionic framework and IBM’s MobileFirst platform. Today I’m going to build on that first post and talk about bootstrapping. Specifically – how can you coordinate the use of your application with the Cordova deviceReady and MobileFirst initialization routines.
To give some context, I first talked

"Career" sit. rep.[+]Adam Cameron's CFML Blog | 3/24/15 9:57 PM | Blog
G'day:Just for you who choose to follow along this pythonesque flying circus that is my working life... now I am back to being a PHP developer again.The stint back in CFML-land was briefer than I expected.I'm still suffering from complete writer's block / motivation block, so I'd not necessarily expect anything interesting (/at all) from this blog for the time being. As always though... if anything interesting crops up, I'll jot it down. It's just that nothing inter

OS X Yosemite Tip – Maximizing Windows[+]Raymond Camden'sBlog | 3/24/15 3:00 PM | Misc
For the most part, upgrading to OS X Yosemite didn’t cause any issues for me, but the one change that bugged the heck out of me (and made me question what in the heck Apple was thinking), was switching the action of clicking the green icon in app windows. Previously, this would maximize the window on your screen. Now, it takes you full screen. (And this is where I question Apple. In all my time watching developers, I rarely see them use full screen. Heck, I used it for the first time la

Angular + Require project template[+]Fusioned with ColdFusion | 3/24/15 2:00 PM | AngularJS, Design Patterns, JavaScript/jQuery, RequireJS
I've been working on an Angular project for good number months. There's a lot that I've learned and I've realized that the code I wrote could have been structured in a better way. I wanted to write this post sometime back, however I thought it would be better to create an application structure first and then post my learnings. I have posted all the code on github here - https://github.com/sagar-ganatra/angular-require-templ